Mr Jobes, who said he had drunk two pints of beer and one pint of shandy, said on the way home he stopped on the hard shoulder and walked down an embankment to relieve himself, leaving the keys in the car but switching the hazard lights on.

A leaflet advises drivers to pull as far to the left as possible, switch on hazard lights, get people out by the left hand door and on to the bank and use an easily located roadside phone to call the emergency services.

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